101 Ways to Crash NS2

Since b188-ish I have steadily found NS2 crashes more and more often each patch. At the moment it is so bad I can barely finish games. While it could all be one issue the various actions I am performing when crashing could easily be different issues/bugs too:

The odd thing is that this has only effected me in public matches to date. I have never crashed during an ENSL Gather match. This would draw me towards it somehow being server performance related, but with such a small sample size it could easily be random chance.

My PC runs the game fine, specs: i7 920 @ 4.1ghz, 12GB RAM, AMD 5850. In long games I get around 70 FPS constantly, dropping to perhaps 50-60 FPS in combat.

I know at the moment there is an issue with servers chucking a load of people off at the same time (and them crashing), I have only had that happen to me once. These crashes are solely effecting me from my experience.

Do other people find Gathers far more stable?

Arga | ns2hub.com"Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."

It is fine to add a skill that can be aquired by playing the game, not a skill that requires non intuitive movement/gamestyle to aquire... thats counter intuitive and bad design.A skill that is first discovered by accident, and then learnt by others via social networking isnt a cool feature, its a popular glitch.

The comments are overall positive (also with the notes inside that ns1 was/is to complex and intelligent to understand for casual gamers (but this made/makes this game so unique !!!)).From my side i had more fun and thrill with this patch then with any stupid 3D Shooter/x what was made since HL1 engine/mods.I wish your team an additional outstanding engine programmer for the brutal finish !This game is a masterpiece artwork for such a small team !!!And yes i am a fanboy.....

We are barely 24 hours in and my client has crashed 9 times (from during map load, to gameplay and round end). Also, again due to how NS2 crashes I cannot see the debugger/crash report window, so have to ctrl+alt+del and close them, so don't even get to report the crashes properly.

Arga | ns2hub.com"Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."

We are barely 24 hours in and my client has crashed 9 times (from during map load, to gameplay and round end). Also, again due to how NS2 crashes I cannot see the debugger/crash report window, so have to ctrl+alt+del and close them, so don't even get to report the crashes properly.

198 Argathor seems to have messed up quite a few things across the board

Post edited by Unknown User on February 2012

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We are barely 24 hours in and my client has crashed 9 times (from during map load, to gameplay and round end). Also, again due to how NS2 crashes I cannot see the debugger/crash report window, so have to ctrl+alt+del and close them, so don't even get to report the crashes properly.

Can you try running in windowed mode to see if that lets you get to the crash debug screen any easier? The more crash debug reports we can get the better chance Max and Dushan have of fixing them asap.

I realy wonder why people have crashes, i don't have any crash since 19X i guess.Realy, the only crash i had, if i alt tab a long time and try to go back to ns2.but at all i can say the game runs very well, i mean you have to play older builds, gee it was luck to stay on a server a round.Now its great in my opinion.

Post edited by Unknown User on February 2012

Buy NS2 @ Steam![Support the Indie Devs!]( my english isn't the best... ),,NS1 was one of the best mods.",,NS2 is one of the best MP games."

Today we had a longer game with 4 hives on mineshaft. Suddenly all marines and 50% of the aliens crashed.

I had now like 5 games since 198 and NO crash, even not after i host (weirdly) my ONLINE lan server and got it full up to 14 people.yes you read right, i mark as LAN and it was online play ^^But the game runs totaly fine, even the pings was great, 5vs5 was playable, i was very surprised.

Edit:I just remember one weird bug but not crash with 197, where i drop a mine behind the command station and the game goes crazy.Like build your mine messages, and if you are in mine range, you saw your thirdperson model in firstpersonview.But realy no crash and i got a ATI card, which is bad for the most games.I had the newest drivers, Win 7@64bit and newest drivers, also i don't install every sh*t on my computer, which means i only run software (e.g. anti-virus) i need.

Post edited by Unknown User on February 2012

Buy NS2 @ Steam![Support the Indie Devs!]( my english isn't the best... ),,NS1 was one of the best mods.",,NS2 is one of the best MP games."

i have certainly noticed more crashes in 198, tho i think its mainly server crashes that ive had. the game slows to a crawl, i see connection problems detected, and at that point i just type disconnect in console and rejoin when the server gets back up

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